Resources for Teaching Art to Kids

How does your school share art with their students? We are very fortunate that our art teachers worked all year long with the students in each grade. During each weekly class they explored many famous artists throughout the year.

As we walked the hallways for Art Show Night each class had created pictures inspired by a famous artist and famous pieces of art. It was truly fun to see how each child created their own masterpiece.

Here’s my little one’s First Art Show Piece in Kindergarten. And also below having her piece selected to be on exhibit at the School Board, she was so thrilled!

As I was observing the student pieces it made me realize that I don’t actually know what the standards are for each grade and thought maybe you might find this information helpful too.

Here you will find a collection of the best art activities to create with your child. I took an Early Childhood Art Coarse in college and I try to share with you as many things as I see developmentally appropriate and fun for your children.

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I'm going to have a field day pinning from this. I'm going to start watching my neighbor's kids a few days a week, plus my own three so I'm stocking up on great activity ideas. Thanks for the great art resources 🙂

It's a great list of resources! I love your daughter's artwork, and she should be duly proud. Unfortunately, we don't have much art in our school due to budget crisis. Regular teachers have been replaced by volunteers teaching monthly classes. I tried to do more at home, but unfortunately daughter is not too artsy and would much rather read than paint.

Hello, I discovered your website thanks to weteachgroup and I think you do a great job for helping parents and teachers with plenty of resources! As for art for children, I myself wrote a post on the lovely book "The Museum" by Susan Verde. It's a story about a little girl visiting a museum where each piece of art evokes a different feeling inside of her. This is my post link http://atelierstorytime.com/2013/07/06/tous-au-musee/Most of the website is written in french, but some texts are also translated in English (this book review is).I hope you can enjoy the story!Michela